Weekly Websites
Deutsches Archäogisches Institut, Cairo
http://www.dainst.org/index.php?id=265&sessionLanguage=en (English)
http://www.dainst.org/index.php?id=265&sessionLanguage=de (German)
Founded in 1907, the Deutsche Institut für ägyptische Altertumskunde became affiliated with the Deutsches Archäogisches Institut in 1929. The area of research of the department encompasses more than 8,000 years of history ranging from the oldest prehistoric pharaonic culture to the beginning of the Islamic Middle Ages. This page has various pieces of useful information, including details of their current archaeological projects in Egypt.
Looting Matters
http://www.lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
A blog by David Gill, who has been featured in an interview for Archaeology Magazine recently. He describes the blog as a "discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the ethics of antiquties". His profile is as follows:
David Gill is a member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was subsequently part of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Saving Antiquities For Everyone
http://www.savingantiquities.org/
SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving cultural heritage worldwide. Our mission is to raise public awareness about the irreversible damage that results from looting, smuggling and trading illicit antiquities. We promote respect for the laws and treaties that enable nations to protect their cultural property and preserve humanity’s most precious non-renewable resource: the intact evidence of our undiscovered past.
By creating educational programs and media campaigns in partnership with academia and the communications, legal and law enforcement communities, SAFE encourages ethical behavior to stop the trade in illicit antiquities from destroying the history that belongs to us all.
http://egypt--devsites.wordpress.com/
Su Bayfield, whose Egypt Sites website has been an invaluable resource for many years, has started up a blog describing her travels in Egypt. As usual with Su's work, her posts are well written, informative and bring Egypt to life in a very pragmatic way. Her main hobby, apart from visiting Egypt, is photography, so her sites are always supported by great images. Su introduces her site as follows:
In 1995 I started a journal of each trip. The first visit of course made the biggest impression on me, but I kept writing each time I went there and this is what this blog is about. It’s a record of my visits, how the country has changed over the years and a bit of history about the sites thrown in. There will also be links to my photographs which don’t appear on my other website, to give a taste of the country rather than just the Egyptian Monuments.
- Ees Webinar
EES webinar AUTUMN 2012 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Cultural Property and the antiquities trade in Egyptology Saturday 29 September 2012, 1 - 4pm (including a break) This is an online event; join the EES at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ees-events...
- Should The Rosetta Stone Go Back To Egypt?
Looting Matters (David Gill) Anyone who managed to miss the flurry of media interest and discussions in December and January about whether or not the Rosetta Stone should be returned to Egypt can find a summary of the situation on the above page. David...
- Egypt - The Scale Of The Returns
Safe Corner (David Gill) David Gill has highlighted the recent Al Ahram article by Nevine El-Aref on the Safe Corner blog, (the online community of the non-profit organization SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone), and has added a very useful pie chart...
- Loans Of Archaeological Material
Looting Matters (David Gill) Not strictly Egyptology, but certainly directly relevant, this piece by David Gill (member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales) on his Looting Matters blog looks at the...
- 100th Anniversary Celebrations Of German Archaeological Institute In Cairo
Der Lifestyle Presseservice The "Kaiserlich Deutsche Institut für Ägyptische Altertumskunde" in Cairo was founded in 1907 by Ludwig Borchardt on the recommendation of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 1929 it was made a department of the German Archaeological...